Packing for journal-boxes.



UNITED WIA IE@ PATENT UI I IUA.

CHARLES MILLER, 0F FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOE TO THE FRANKLINMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF T 0all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MILLER, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Franklin, in the county of Venango and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPacking for JournaLBoxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a loose or non-compressedpacking material for the journal boxes of railway rolling stock in whicha relatively large amount of gray yarn is utilized. This material may bevariously composed of cotton or wool, or a mixture of cotton and wool,and like all shoddied materials it is devoid of life or resiliency.

In utilizing gray yarn for packing purposes the problem is to maintainit in contact with the journal to be lubricated, and this difficulty isparticularly pronounced when used in journal boxes where the packing isnecessarily beneath the journal. Excepting for this difficulty, grayyarn pro vides an admirable absorbent and conductor for the lubricant.It is durable; does not readily heat; and is comparatively inexpensive.In utilizing it as an element of so called waste packing the principaland heretofore insurmountable diiiiculty has been to maintain it inoperative condition and in contact with the journal, the naturaltendency of this lifeless, non-resilient material being to settle in acompact or sodden mass. With the invention herein this difliculty hasbeen overcome by providing a fibrous resilient element, together withmeans for so uniting the yarn with such element as to prevent separationwhen in use and thereby forestall the natural compacting tendency of theyarn.

The invention may be variously embodied.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sgph 12, 19116 PENNSYLVANIA.

PACKING FOB JOURNAL-BOXES.

1,198,142. No Drawing. Application filed. March 14, 1916.

Serial No. 84,247.

In a preferred adaptation, the gray yarn is mixed with Louisiana mossand cotton rips, the latter owing to its pubescent character serving asa binder for maintaining the yarn and moss thoroughly and permanentlyintermingled. A desirable mixture consists of approximately 40% yarn;approximately 20% Louisiana moss, and approximately 40% cotton rips.

Various fibrous resilient elements have been proposed heretofore for usein journal box packings, including Louisiana moss, and while the latteris preferred, the invention is not limited thereto. And while thetentaclelike, downy or hairy surfaces of cotton rips provides foreffectually uniting the yarn and resilient fiber, any other intermediarypossessing a like characteristic is within the purview of the invention.

I claim:

1. A packing mixture for journal boxes consisting of gray yarn, afibrous resilient element, and a binder element for uniting the yarn andthe resilient element.

2. A packing mixture for journal boxes consisting of gray yarn, afibrous resilient element, and a fibrous pubescent element for unitingthe yarn and the resilient element.

3. A packing mixture for journal boxes consisting of gray yarn,Louisiana moss, and cotton rips.

4. A packing mixture for journal boxes consisting of gray yarn about40%, Louisiana moss about 20% and cotton rips about 40%.

I11 testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES MILLER.

l/Vitnesses:

G. F. Pnouorjoo'r, F. D. Si-IEETZ.

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